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MONTHLY SYLLABUS

SESSION-2017-18

CLASS-I

SUBJECT : ENGLISH

MONTH CONTENT

April 2017 Unit 1 : A Happy Child (Recitation with actions)

ACTIVITY:

SPEAKING

1 .What makes you happy?

Each child will try and talk about things that make him / her

happy. Eg- I feel happy when I play with my friends. Encourage

each child to speak even if the sentences are ungrammatical or

broken. In case the child uses the mother tongue instead of

forbidding him/her from doing so, rephrase the sentence in

simple english and ask him/her to repeat the sentence.

2. Talking about feelings.

Elicit answers by asking short leading questions or showing the

students pictures

Eg. How do you feel when your friend does not talk to you?

WRITING

Write different words associated with happiness

Change the number

Opposite words

Draw something that makes you happy and write one

sentence about it.

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Unit 1 (contd) Three Little Pigs (Reading).

May 2017 Activity : Listening – Listen and follow simple instructions

Playing Game (1) Simon Says

(2) Leader Leader Action Change.

July 2017 Unit 2 : After a Bath (Recitation) – The Bubble, The Straw and

the shoe-Reading

Activity: Listening – Paste Things of yellow colours.

Vowel Sounds.

Speaking – Act the character of your choice.

Unit 3 : The Little Kitten (Recitation), Lalu and Peelu

(Reading), Mother Hen & Chicks.

Activity : (1) Collect the pictures of 2 birds, paste, name them

and speak 2 lines about them. Speak a few sentences about ‘My

favourite game’, (2) Role play based on the lesson.

August 2017 Unit 4 : Once I saw a little bird (Recitation) – Mittu and the

Yellow Mango

Activity : Draw a parrot, colour it and speak two sentences

about your parrot.

Listen to the instructions and write / tell the name of fruits.

Unit 5 : Merry go round (Recitation) – Circle (Reading)

Activity : The students will work in pairs & discuss a fair they

have been to. This is followed by each child speaking 2-3 lines

about the fair in class.

Where was it? Whom did he go with?

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What did he see there? What did he eat?

What did he like most?

September 2017 REVISION AND TERM END EXAMINATION -

ANSWER SHEETS

October 2017 Unit 6 : If I were an apple – Our Tree

Activity: Vocabulary Tambola (Bingo) – The teacher will call

out certain words from her list. The students will shout ‘Bingo’

each time they hear the name of a fruit.

Speak – If I could be a fruit I would like to be a/an ____ because

_____

Murali’s Mango Tree

Activity : (1) Rhyming words (2) listen and write in table, the

things we get from plants.

November 2017 Unit 7 : A Kite (Recitation) – Sundari (Story)

Activity: (1) Listen to the sentences from the story, arrange

them in order, (2) Draw a kite and speak about it.

Unit 8 : The Little Turtle Recitation

December 2017 Unit 8: The Little Turtle Recitation – The Tiger and The

Mosquito

Activity : Make the mask of tiger or dress like a mosquito and

describe either of them.

Unit 9 : Clouds – Anandi’s Rainbow Story Reading

Activity : Use of capital letters.

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January 2018 Unit 10: Flying Man (Recitation) – The Tailor and his friends

Activity: Singular plural – speaking about self

My self – paragraph, Listening – Who am I (Name the

profession)

Use of is, am, are – Gap filling exercise. Opposite words.

February 2018 Unit 10 : Recitation – Reading

Activity : Revision – Talk about your best friend.

REVISION AND ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS